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I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.
Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.
When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.
I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.
In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.
When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.
You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.
There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.
Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.
The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.
It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.
To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.
Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.
Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.
I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is.
As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.
If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.
Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.
My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers
Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.
I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human essence of the character.
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.
We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.